This page is a list of all published and in-press papers that employ (or otherwise focus on) the multiple-object tracking paradigm. The list below contains all such papers of which we in the Yale Perception & Cognition Lab are aware, as of the date listed above. In recent years the number of researchers using this paradigm has skyrocketed, and this trend seems to be continuing: note that since the inception of this paradigm in 1988, there have been published studies every year since 1999, and with at least 10 published papers per year during every year since 2008. In addition, MOT has increasingly been used in studies that are then reported in literatures tied to new methods (e.g. fMRI) and subject populations (e.g. young children, older adults, children with amblyopia, children with autism spectrum disorder or Williams syndrome) -- not to mention studies of the influence of hallucinogens on MOT performance (!). These factors have made it increasingly difficult to keep track (ha ha!) of the relevant literature -- especially as more studies use this tool without naming it in titles or abstracts. Thus this page. We initially collected these references for a forthcoming review of this work, but we will now also attempt to keep this list current, and we hope that it may be of some use to others.

If you know of any additions or updates that should be listed here, please let us know!

(Note, though, that we are intending 'MOT' to be read in a narrow sense here, referring to the paradigm -- or slight variants thereof -- pioneered by Zenon Pylyshyn in the late 1980s. In particular, we are not listing studies that employ other types of visual tracking that do not pose the special constraints of MOT -- e.g. Cavanagh's work on tracking in rotating radial gratings, Saiki's work on 'MOPT', or Tripathy's work on trajectory perception. We are also not including conference abstracts, manuscripts under review, etc.)

The studies below are listed in chronological order, and by alphabetical order within year.

A Few Lab Pages Where at Least Several of These Papers Can be Downloaded

Ma, Z., & Flombaum, J. (2013). Off to a bad start: Uncertainty about the number of targets at the onset of multiple object tracking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 39, 1421-1432.